Gwen and Art have been betrothed since birth, as seems appropriate given their namesakes. But they hate each other. It’s almost time to set the wedding date, however, so they’re forced to spend a summer together. Very quickly, Gwen discovers Art kissing a man, and he discovers her old diaries pining over the kingdom’s only female knight. Maybe they can help each other out… assuming they can survive the kingdom’s (and their parents’) political machinations.

I’ll be honest: If I hadn’t had a reading challenge prompt of “sapphic knights,” I would not have continued this book for very long. It wasn’t bad; it just wasn’t my type of book. I’ve never been into the whole king Arthur, Camelot, Knights of the Round Table type tales. And while this story is set several generations after all that, it’s still deeply centered in those cultural moors. And unfortunately, the story never won me over. Gwen is too milquetoast, and Art is obnoxious. I liked her better, but I don’t know if that’s because I liked the narrator (Sarah Ovens) better than Art’s (Alex Singh), or because I prefer milquetoast to obnoxious as a personality. Either way, the story fell flat to me. This is why I generally try not to join reading challenges – I tend to make too many reading decisions based on what I’m supposed to read rather than what I’m enjoying. Oh well.